Tag: walks
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White Hill
Today’s walk was all about the views. We’ve previously done a walk starting at White Hill, just outside Kingsclere, but today we headed the opposite direction, past the gallops and the beautiful Watership Down (inspiration for the novel by Richard Adams). It’s not a book, or film (animation) that I can read or watch without…
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Mapledurwell
It was a perfect day for a walk today, a bit overcast so not too hot and it was dry, although we did get a lot of rain last night so our expectations on the mud front were fairly high. We decided on a fairly local walk over to the village of Mapledurwell. The footpath…
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Chilbolton
What a beautiful day we had for our walk this week. The sun was shining and it was even quite warm. A bit too warm for how we were dressed as we were obviously erring on the side of caution, but definitely an improvement on previous wet, cold and windy walks. We headed to Chilbolton,…
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Weston Patrick
About a month or so ago we attempted a walk around Weston Patrick, but had to drive elsewhere because we couldn’t find anywhere to park. When I got home I was reminded that there was a little layby just outside the village. So today was Weston Patrick take two! From the layby we took the…
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Tickley
Tucked away just off the A339, not far from Lasham airfield, is a lovely area of open space and woodland owned by the Woodland Trust, complete with two car parks. Last week’s weather was quite mild. Yesterday it was lovely and warm (I had washing on the line and even cut the grass). Today was…
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Bramley
We were lucky to get another dry day and even the sun made a brief appearance. Our walk today started at St James’ Church in Bramley. We decided to have a look in the church before we got too muddy (a good decision as it turned out). The church was built in the Norman period…
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Preston Candover
Well, what a glorious morning, at least it was when I woke up. There was a distinct contrast between what I could see out of the window and the forecast on the TV which showed a great swathe of dark blue moving up the weather map. We could expect heavy rain by mid morning. So…
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Oakley
Today started with a bit of a dilemma. It was wet, the forecast was for heavy rain (and I checked several, they were all the same). Do we walk or will it be a cafe day? I’m not sure if none of us wanted to admit defeat, or there was just a bit of wishful…
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Dummer
It was a grey, dull day when we set off for our walk around Dummer, although at least it wasn’t raining, yet. We found somewhere to park close to the church and set off on the footpath, which is part of the Wayfarer’s Walk. Passing a little pony in a field, the path rose before…
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Dogmersfield
It’s always good when a walk starts on a long driveway with gate houses on either side. Although to be fair we actually started in a layby with a kebab van. Following the path to the left, just before the gate houses, it didn’t take very long to discover the extremely wet and muddy footpath through the…